And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

You shall become the person you are.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.